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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-10-12 14:35:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-10-12 16:03:38 +0200 |
| commit | 3942b6bcd224490bffd794e82a577defc276fb88 (patch) | |
| tree | 82ac9c58c663d9cdb0ac591245b2284d39c8ed5b | |
| parent | a8a9227ded319bc41d55921ca049422810083aff (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-3942b6bcd224490bffd794e82a577defc276fb88.tar.gz | |
mbstowcs.3, wcstombs.3: Improve language relating to "initial state"
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839705
Reported-by: Igor Liferenko <igor.liferenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/mbstowcs.3 | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/wcstombs.3 | 7 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man3/mbstowcs.3 b/man3/mbstowcs.3 index e02f7dfcbd..bdd624ae91 100644 --- a/man3/mbstowcs.3 +++ b/man3/mbstowcs.3 @@ -39,8 +39,9 @@ At most .I n wide characters are written to .IR dest . -The conversion starts -in the initial state. +The sequence of characters in the string +.I src +shall begin in the initial shift state. The conversion can stop for three reasons: .IP 1. 3 An invalid multibyte sequence has been encountered. diff --git a/man3/wcstombs.3 b/man3/wcstombs.3 index e5498b3ff4..073cc9b76a 100644 --- a/man3/wcstombs.3 +++ b/man3/wcstombs.3 @@ -36,8 +36,9 @@ At most .I n bytes are written to .IR dest . -The conversion -starts in the initial state. +The sequence of characters placed in +.IR dest +begins in the initial shift state. The conversion can stop for three reasons: .IP 1. 3 A wide character has been encountered that can not be represented as a @@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ is returned, but the shift state at this point is lost. .IP 3. The wide-character string has been completely converted, including the terminating null wide character (L\(aq\\0\(aq). -In this case, the conversion ends in the initial state. +In this case, the conversion ends in the initial shift state. The number of bytes written to .IR dest , excluding the terminating null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq), is returned. |